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Bruce Asbestos: Bootleg Shreg 2 Also showing<\/p>\n Roy Oxlade May Morris: Crafting a Legacy 30 Years Alan Charlton Image of the weekHanging Rock, 2025. Photograph: Jon McCormack<\/p>\n It could be a work of modern art: a sculpture by Barbara Hepworth or Henry Moore, an abstract composition of undulating organic forms in marble or bronze. But what photographer Jon McCormack captured here is the work of an entirely different sculptor: time. This weird, wobbly shape is a rock he photographed on Kangaroo Island, a piece of land that separated from mainland Australia 10,000 years ago. Over the years, nature has taken its course, wind and rain have done their business, and left behind this hollowed out form as a reminder of its awesome power. Read more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n What we learned<\/p>\n This year\u2019s Turner prize nominees played it safe<\/a><\/p>\n Martin Parr\u2019s first posthumous exhibition is a dazzling final chapter<\/a><\/p>\n The story of Black British music is told in the first exhibition at V&A East<\/a><\/p>\n Portugal\u2019s newest art festival takes an anarchistic approach<\/a><\/p>\n Isaac Julien\u2019s new show is a bombastic meditation on human connection<\/a><\/p>\n Picasso\u2019s Guernica is being used in Spain\u2019s partisan squabbles<\/a><\/p>\n Our latest art series is a guide to taking kids to see art<\/a><\/p>\n The finalists for museum of the year have been announced<\/a><\/p>\n Irish artist Racheal Crowther will attack your mind and your nostrils!<\/a><\/p>\n Masterpiece of the week<\/p>\n The Guitar Player (Lady With a Guitar), c.1670-1720 by Johannes Vermeer<\/p>\n Photograph: The Picture Art Collection\/Alamy<\/p>\n On a trip last week walking around Kenwood House with my dad, a guide told us the story of how this Vermeer had been nicked in the 1970s and recovered with the help of a clairvoyant. It was a top quality anecdote. Then the guide said: \u201cBeautiful painting, but he can\u2019t do faces, she looks like a boiled egg.\u201d I\u2019ve not had a lot of hairy boiled eggs in my life, but if one showed up at breakfast looking like this I\u2019d be pretty damn impressed. She is ghostly and strange, doll-like and a bit vacant, but it\u2019s her quiet amusement at whatever\u2019s happening off-canvas, her distracted smirk and laughing eyes, that make this such a good painting. Not bad for a boiled egg. Sign up to the Art Weekly newsletter<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t already receive our regular roundup of art and design news via email, please sign up here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Get in touch<\/p>\n
The guy who put a huge inflatable snail<\/a> in Tate\u2019s Turbine Hall brings his wacky comic style to Exeter for a show about Shreg, a green ogre that breaches absolutely zero copyright rules.
Exeter Phoenix Gallery<\/a>, from 25 April to 20 June<\/p>\n
Rough, scrappy, primitive painting \u2013 not unlike the work of his wife, the incredible Rose Wylie \u2013 by this major figure in 20th-century British art.
Alison Jacques, London<\/a>, until 30 May<\/p>\n
Embroidery, wallpaper, watercolours, costumes and jewellery by the hypertalented youngest daughter of Arts and Crafts pioneer William.
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool<\/a>, from 25 April to 1 November<\/p>\n
Works by big hitters including Philip Guston, Alex Katz and Antoni T\u00e0pies alongside younger artists to celebrate three decades at the top of the art game for this commercial gallery.
Timothy Taylor, London<\/a>, until 30 May<\/p>\n
New works by Charlton, who for more than 50 years has been making totally monochrome paintings to a strict set of rules exclusively in one colour: grey.
Annely Juda Fine Art, London<\/a>, from 30 April to 7 June<\/p>\n
Kenwood House, London<\/a><\/p>\n